Bosky vs Woody - What's the difference?
bosky | woody |
Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.
* 1886 , David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, Macmillan's Magazine , Volume 54,
* 1930 , Samuel Eliot Morison, The Development of Harvard University Since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929 ,
* c.1936 , , in 2003, William G. Holzberger (editor), The Letters of George Santayana, Book Five, 1933-1936 ,
Caused by trees or shrubs.
* (Henry James)
Bushy, bristling.
*1851 ,
*:They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
Covered in woods; wooded.
(obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
(botany) Non-herbaceous.
(botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".
A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
(vulgar, slang) An erection.
As adjectives the difference between bosky and woody
is that bosky is having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees while woody is covered in woods; wooded.As a noun woody is
a station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.As a proper noun Woody is
a male given name, from a nickname for Woodrow.bosky
English
Adjective
(er)page 24,
- And the fields; they must have been a little more trackless and irregular, more bosky and tumbled, retaining a little more hill and dale, an irregularity which generation after generation of ploughing has nearly counteracted ; .
page 345,
- Even in 1869 it had had more than half a century of development, and to judge from photographs must already have been a place of charm. Indeed, it seems to have had at that time more and finer trees than now, and to have been more bosky with scattered copses and masses of shrubbery.
page 425,
- The Harvard Yard is also darkened and made to seem far more bosky and umbrageous than it was.
- Darkened over by long bosky shadows.
woody
English
Adjective
(er)- with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
- Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
